slightly dated now, but still as relevant as ever

very scary history of european involvement in Congo

and while we're on Congo, you can't avoid this book

historical novel covering the Amin years (now a film, and i'm an extra in it - ha ha!)

a life-changing book about the racism and fear that lay behind apartheid as well as the human souls

fair, extensive and challenging overview of all the horrors, indignities and sheer inhumanity in the Atlantic Slave Trade

Shocking, unsettling, disturbing, but all too real - a modern south African morality tale with no easy answers

an extraordinary book about Dahomey, the African kingdom at the heart of the slave trade selling fellow Africans off to Europeans.

price is now total ripoff - get elsewhere if you can - diaries of one of the few British civil servants who stayed in Uganda throughout the Amin era & was actually the 1 to swear in Museveni in 1986

Daily Telegraph African correspondent who travelled all over - very interesting and insightful

a white girl growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe - a weird and difficult life beautifully described in childlike terms

not read this yet - but is on my list! Included here because everyone who knows about these things has told me to read it. Will update this!